Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 16:12:26 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu> To: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Isely <isely@pobox.com>, Linux SMP Mailing List <linux-smp@vger.rutgers.edu>, aic7xxx Mailing List <AIC7xxx@freebsd.org>, Linux Tulip Mailing List <linux-tulip@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: Curious failure... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912031610000.27983-100000@ganesh.phy.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <3847EA54.E1B6452@redhat.com>
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On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Doug Ledford wrote:
> Boot the linux kernel with the option "noapic" and everything should be fine.
> What you describe is the typical condition when the IO-APIC code in the SMP
> kernel gets the interrupt mapping wrong.
OK, I'll try it. Although I'm a bit curious as to why it only affects
the SMP kernel and then only when I fail to have mem=384M set. Is it
the sort of thing that can sometimes be gotten right and sometimes
wrong?
rgb
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